A39690:279
A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing…
A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing the death of her dear and only son wherein the boundaries of sorrow are duly fixed, excesses restrained, the common pleas answered, and divers rules for the support of Gods afflicted ones prescribed / by J.F.
London: printed for Robert Boulter, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
12. Consid. The Lord is able to restore all your lost comforts in Relations double to you, if you meekly submit to him, and patiently wait upon him under the rod.
When Esau had lost his blessing, he said, Hast thou but one blessing my Father? Gen. 27. 38. But your Father hath more blessings for you than one; his name is The Father of mercies, 2 Cor. 1. 3. He can beget and create as many mercies for you as he pleaseth; Relations and the comforts of them are at his command.
It is but a few months or years past, and these comforts whose loss you now lament were not in being; nor did you know whence they should arise to you, yet the Lord gave the word, and commanded them for you: and if he please he can make the death of these but like a sith to the Meadow that is mown down, or a razor to the head that is shaved bare; which though it lay you under the present trouble and reproach of barrenness, yet doth but make way for a double increase, a second spring with advantage.
It is but a few months or years past, and these comforts whose loss you now lament were not in being; nor did you know whence they should arise to you, yet the Lord gave the word, and commandèd them for you: and if he please he can make the death of these but like a sythe to the Meadow that is mown down, or a razor to the head that is shaved bare; which though it lay you under the present trouble and reproach of barrenness, yet doth but make way for a double increase, a second spring with advantage.